"We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart."
- Susan Abulhawa
"the reverse side of love is unbearable loss."
"I loved her in spite of myself. I loved her immeasurably.Infinitely. And I feared that love as much as I feared my own fury at theworld."
"She loved beyond measure, When I was young I thought her cold. But in time I came to understand that she was too tender for the world she’d been born into,” I said. Sorrow gave Dalia an iron gift. Beh..."
"How fate is stubborn and holds to habit."
"Thank you,’ I answered, unsure of the proper American response to her gracious enthusiasm. In the Arab world, gratitude is a language unto itself. “May Allah bless the hands that give me this gift”; “..."
"I know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her."
"Always" is a good word to believe in."
"You and I are the remains of an unfulfilled legacy, heirs to a kingdom of stolen identities and ragged confusion."
"Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme."